Stop

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Stop may refer to:

Places

  • Stop, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States
  • Stop (Rogatica), a village in Rogatica, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Facilities

Film

  • Stop, a 1970 American film by Bill Gunn with Marlene Clark, Anna Aries, Edward Michael Bell
  • Stop, a 1972 French-Canadian film by Jean Beaudin
  • Stop!, a 2004 Hindi romantic film starring Dia Mirza
  • Stop (2015 film) South Korean-Japanese co-production directed by Kim Ki-duk

Music

  • Double stop, the act of playing two notes simultaneously
  • Organ stop, a component of a pipe organ
  • Stop (Stockhausen), a composition for orchestra by Karlheinz Stockhausen

Albums

  • Stop (Don Lanphere album), and the title song, 1983
  • Stop (Eric Burdon Band album), and the title song, 1975
  • Stop (Franco De Vita album), 2004
  • Stop (Plain White T's album), and the title song, 2001
  • Stop! (album), by Sam Brown, and the title song, 1988

Songs

  • "Stop!" (Against Me! song)
  • "Stop" (Bang song)
  • "Stop!" (Jane's Addiction song)
  • "Stop" (Omar Naber song), the Slovene entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2005
  • "Stop" (Pink Floyd song)
  • "Stop" (Ryan Adams song)
  • "Stop!" (Sam Brown song)
  • "Stop" (Sibel Redžep song)
  • "Stop" (Spice Girls song)
  • "Stop" (Stefanie Heinzmann song), recorded in 2009
  • "Stop! In the Name of Love", a song by the Supremes
  • "Stop", by AJ Mitchell
  • "Stop", by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club from Take Them On, On Your Own
  • "Stop", by Clyde McPhatter, B-side of the single "The Best Man Cried"
  • "Stop", by Dope from Life
  • "Stop", by En Vogue from Soul Flower
  • "Stop!", by Erasure from Crackers International
  • "Stop", by Girls Aloud from Sound of the Underground
  • "Stop", by J-Hope from Jack in the Box
  • "Stop", by James Gang from Yer' Album
  • "Stop", by Matchbox Twenty from Mad Season
  • "Stop", by Mega City Four from Sebastopol Rd.
  • "Stop", by No Angels from Welcome to the Dance
  • "Stop", by Stefanie Heinzmann from Roots to Grow
  • "Stop", by Twin Sister from "In Heaven"
  • "(Stop)", by the Lottery Winners from Anxiety Replacement Therapy

Medicine and anatomy

  • Stop (dog), a part of a dog's skull
  • Stop codon, a type of RNA molecule in genetic code
  • STOP protein, a protein in animals
  • Surgical termination of pregnancy, a type of abortion

Linguistics

  • Stop consonant, a type of consonant in which you block the flow of air for a moment and suddenly release it. Also known as a plosive or an occlusive.

Optics and photography

  • Stop, the difference of a power of 2 in the context of exposure value
    • F-stops, a unit of measure of aperture
  • Stop bath, a chemical used in film processing

Arrestation devices

  • Door stop
  • Petzl Stop, a descender used in caving
  • Train stop, a train protection device

Halting

  • Stop sign, a traffic signal
  • Full stop (full point, period), a punctuation mark
    • STOP, used to replace that symbol in telegraphs, as Morse code has no method to produce it (sometimes STOP was used for a comma and FULL STOP for the period).
  • Stop error, a computer error screen
  • Terry stop, a brief police detention in the United States

Other uses

  • Safe Tables Our Priority, a food safety organization
  • Secure Trusted Operating Program, a computer operating system
  • Stop, a futuristic display typeface by Aldo Novarese
  • Stop squark, in quantum physics, a supersymmetric squark which is the superpartner of the top quark
  • Society of Teachers Opposed to Physical Punishment, an organisation based in the United Kingdom
  • Strategic Operations, a military, police, and medical training company in San Diego
  • Stop or stopper, a specific type of card holding in one suit in the game of contract bridge (see: Glossary of contract bridge terms#stopper)